tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11440161.post112680955600952591..comments2023-12-18T16:07:56.906+00:00Comments on Jamie's Big Voice: Just a thoughtjamiesbigvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04888626289011290109noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11440161.post-1126972920275520892005-09-17T17:02:00.000+01:002005-09-17T17:02:00.000+01:00There's too much emphasis on people's rights these...There's too much emphasis on people's rights these days and not enough on people's obligations. Life may well be too cushy for prisoners these days compared to the past. They expect their 'rights', of course when we think that they have really forfeited them. But we now live in a different, more affluent society from thirty, forty or fifty years' ago and you can't really lock people up in a time warp with nothing to do, nothing to keep them in touch with the modern, outside world and with no human dignity. Otherwise, how can you expect that one day they may be able to return to a semblance of normal lives?<BR/><BR/>Those deported in the last couple of centuries weren't all criminals in the true sense of the word. Some of them were bankrupts or unfortunates who were starving, some were even hanged for stealing a loaf of bread. I wouldn't want to go back to those good old days!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com